[Cialug] Fwd: City of Ankeny: Ankeny has caught the Google bug; intends to compete for Google ultra high-speed broadband opportunity

[Dave Weis]

Digging holes and burying lines is expensive. It also makes sense to share infrastructure with other providers because of that cost and the fact that the right of way will get full if everyone is putting in their own facilities.

In most cases it costs us more to deliver the Internet to our customers than the Internet bandwidth itself.

dave 


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-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Nuzum
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 12:53 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Fwd: City of Ankeny: Ankeny has caught the Google bug; intends to compete for Google ultra high-speed broadband opportunity

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Matthew Steven <matthew at geniusweb.com> wrote:
> Despite that, Spencer did not kick Mediacom out, though Mediacom's 
> prices suddenly became far more realistic.
>
> Competition is good, and municipal systems can be used very 
> effectively to break monopolies and raise quality of service for everyone.
>

I saw this same thing happen in Clearwater Florida.

My question is, why aren't CLECs succeeding at doing this same thing?
Des Moines has, imho, very expensive bandwidth for consumers.

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